There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.